Category Visual Arts

Sunsets constantly changing

photo - “April 5, 2006, Reflected Embers: Cerulean, Cadmium Red, Yellow and Orange.” One of the sunsets Jack Rootman captured in oil over the space of a year

“April 5, 2006, Reflected Embers: Cerulean, Cadmium Red, Yellow and Orange.” One of the sunsets Jack Rootman captured in oil over the space of a year. For three decades, Jack Rootman combined two of his passions: medicine and art. Last…

Constant artistic reinvention

photo - The Vancouver skyline, photographed and painted by Sharon Tenenbaum

The Vancouver skyline, photographed and painted by Sharon Tenenbaum. Sharon Tenenbaum is celebrating her 10-year anniversary – since becoming an artist photographer – with a solo exhibition at Zack Gallery. The exhibit includes photographs from a number of different series,…

Landscapes alive with color

photo - Sandy Blass’ solo exhibit No Other Country is at Zack Gallery until Dec. 12

Sandy Blass’ solo exhibit No Other Country is at Zack Gallery until Dec. 12. (photo by Olga Livshin) Artist Sandy Blass’ first solo show in Canada – No Other Country, a series of landscapes – opened last week at Zack…

Keeping things simple

photo - “Overseas” by Ivor Levin

“Overseas” by Ivor Levin. (photo by Ivor Levin) Ivor Levin’s path to artistic photography was a long and gradual one. “Photography is my hobby,” he said in an interview with the Independent, but one couldn’t have guessed it from his…

Printmaker comes to city

photo - Ian Kochberg at work

Ian Kochberg at work. (photo from Ian Kochberg) Next week, at the Circle Craft Winter Market, local community members will have a rare opportunity to meet Ontario artist Ian Kochberg and buy some of his work. Kochberg has been a professional…

Chagall lithograph exhibit at Zack

photo - Susanna Strem, owner of Chali-Rosso Art Gallery, in front of a Marc Chagall lithograph

Susanna Strem, owner of Chali-Rosso Art Gallery, in front of a Marc Chagall lithograph. (photo by Olga Livshin) Marc Chagall needs no introduction. But perhaps not everyone is aware that there is a gallery in Vancouver that specializes in original…

Community art for the Zack

image - The upcoming show at the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, which features 45 community artists who have donated their work, is a fundraiser for the gallery

(photo from jccgv.com) The upcoming show at the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, which features 45 community artists who have donated their work, is a fundraiser for the gallery. “The idea for the show belongs to Shirley Barnett,” said gallery…

Art sets B.C. hotels apart

photo - “Lying on top of a building,” by U.K. artist Liam Gillick, wraps around 18 floors of the Pacific Rim Hotel in downtown Vancouver

“Lying on top of a building,” by U.K. artist Liam Gillick, wraps around the Pacific Rim Hotel in downtown Vancouver. (photo from Pacific Rim Hotel) If you happened to have missed Ira Hoffecker’s Berlin Identities exhibit at the Jewish Community Centre…

Overlapping exhibits

photo - “Girl with Flower” by Esther Warkov, 1964, acrylic on canvas

“Girl with Flower” by Esther Warkov, 1964, acrylic on canvas. (WAG collection; gift of Arthur B.C. Drache, QC, G-98-296; photo by Leif Norman) Russian-born Jewish artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a modernism pioneer. So much so that Pablo Picasso proclaimed…

Creating with images

image in Jewish Independent - Bob Prosser’s “Cuts” is part of the PhotoClub Vancouver group exhibit now on at the Zack Gallery

Bob Prosser’s “Cuts” is part of the PhotoClub Vancouver group exhibit now on at the Zack Gallery. Members of PhotoClub Vancouver don’t consider their photography a way to capture moments in life as they come across them, but rather as a…